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Do you know any words that have no equivalent in English?

Asked by flutherother (34525points) July 7th, 2011

For example the word ‘feasgar’ in Scots Gaelic means the time after noon. Its meaning includes both afternoon and evening but there is no directly equivalent word in English. Do you know any others and why does a word exist in one language but not another?

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